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Monthly Archives: September 2014

TRACES OF MO(VE)MENTS

Sunday, September 21, 2014

“I mean, how you engender line, and the qualities you imbue this engendering moment with, are up to the individual artist. That’s what creates distinct performances.” says acclaimed choreographer William Forsythe. From legendary ballet dancer Sylvie Guillem’s perfect pirouettes to the charcoal lines, tables and ropes, Forsythe has been creating astonishing moments with bodies.
Nowadays, bodies are [...]

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STORE OF THE MONTH: SALON FÜR KUNSTBUCH 21ER HAUS / VIENNA

Saturday, September 20, 2014

We love museums, and sometimes what we love even more are museum bookstores. 21er Haus has, of course, a long history (since 1962, in fact) of bringing contemporary art to shake up the dust of Vienna, with a revamp in 2011 – which also included a new space for Salon für Kunstbuch, which has, on [...]

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PARERGON

Friday, September 19, 2014

A last minute invite for tonight’s opening at Hamburger Bahnhof of Mariana Castillo Deball’s exhibition Parergon- an exhibition of hidden stories and history.
Opening tonight 20:00
20.9.2014 – 1.3.2015
Hamburger Bahnhof- Museum für Gegenwart
Invalidenstrasse 50-51 Berlin

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GRANFATHER’S ENVELOPES

Friday, September 19, 2014

Just  something that I‘ve missed from the year 2011 and crossed my way shortly ago when I was scanning the internet for envelopes as a part of exhibition concepts or artwork: Works of paper by Kouzaki Hiromu, a japanese carpenter who at the age of 80 began to make envelopes from all sorts of paper [...]

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MONO.KULTUR #37 / SOUNDBITE 01

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

This has been a long long time in the making, but finally there’s light at the end of the tunnel: mono.kultur #37.

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THE FIRST LAW OF KIPPLE

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

British photographer Dan Tobin Smith is mostly known for his ultra-slick still life photographs, ranging from advertising to highly polished fashion shoots. So the exhibition The First Law of Kipple at his East London studio offers a nice antidote to his commercial work; inspired by Philip K. Dick, who termed the clutter we end up [...]

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Slavoj Žižek Reacts to The Internet

Monday, September 15, 2014

Colorful reference to maniac marxist and protagonist of projects such as The Reality of the Virtual, Slavoj Žižek.
There are four episodes, including all time favorites like “Dave after Dentist“.

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MONDAY MUSIC: LA FEMME

Monday, September 15, 2014

With summer making an unexpected return to our shores this week, what could be more apt then an excerpt from an album titled Psycho Tropical Berlin (even if this track Time to Wake Up is from last year, but hey) – of course, no Berliner would inject such an unashamed amount of sex into their [...]

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WATCHING, WAITING & WONDERING: THE TRAVELING CAT

Saturday, September 13, 2014

As an animal and cat lover, I love this, ‘On our journey to find the perfect travel bag for a cat we are inspired by the Dutch Ethologist and Nobelprice winner Niko van Tinbergen. A researcher who studied communicational behaviour of animals. He would observe them and ask the right questions before he would even [...]

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KINDLFOX

Friday, September 12, 2014

With the Berlin Art Week just around the corner, the local art world is revving up its engines: tomorrow opens the long-awaited art space in Neukölln’s former Kindl brewery, which should step up the game a notch in terms of grand art spaces in the city. Guest of honour will be Swiss Roman Signer with [...]

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